please stop the xenophobia. All countries are different. You know the US forced China to open up its markets right -- it had an embargo of basically all technology against it before Deng Xiaoping opened up the special zones.
I'm constantly outraged at the blatant anti-communism most Slashdotters seem to embody. It isn't even that they're educated. They just have an intense bias, a hatred for anthing "socialist" or left of the norm. People even criticize China for not meeting the WTO's demands here, even when it is obvious that a capitalist economy doesn't WORK. (Gee, let's look at most of South America, The Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia.) These capitalist economies are failing. Even Vladmir Putin said Russians were better off under the Soviet Union.
This is the bottom line. This quota allows the Chinese government and national bourgeois to cut costs and this is always good. It fosters development rather than dependence.
Stop being so closed minded. Respect the people of China.
It's a huge waste of money, used to collect pretty rocks which have no value other than augmenting American nationalism. The money could be spent on making this world better instead of eventually exploiting the resources of other worlds.
But, you know, bourgeois governments are keen at wasting money.
I love Mozilla. I think we've established that open source production is more efficient than a top-down approach. I guess that's why planned economies are also more efficient.
Anyways. Now I'm becoming a cyber terrorist and am going to launch attacks on Israeli computers.
I will make a correction.
I am now about to classify two types of hacker.
hacker 1: Pasty-faced, straight-edge, unintelligent but has a high sense of self-importance. Believes "Freedom" is "Freedom from Copyrights." and has a limited view of the world. Green or left democrat. Sexually repressed, fat, usually wearing a t-shirt and shorts, even in repressively cold weather.
hacker 2: Usually fat, button down shirt, right-winger. Loves the Free Market and has believes Ayn Rand's propaganda about the superiority of lassiez-faire capitalism. Also enjoys creating buffer overflows which form the base of their life's meaning. This type loves to chug beer, watch football, and pretend to do "manly" things, even when their appearance is revolting to most.
Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.
It's not the rampant christian symbolism which makes Evangelion attractive, in fact, it's only used to give Evangelion a "story." The real art of Evangelion is recognizing each character's traits and problems they face. Problems that when isolated are often found in the real world rather than the world of NERV and SEELE.
The cinematography is excellent. Having taken a film class you can apply mise en scen to each frame within Evangelion and each character is placed in a certain way to emphasize the themes of alienation and hopelessness which span the series.
Cartoons are not just for kids.
Whenever there's a post about China, Slashdot anti-communists burst into action and slander the People's Republic with every piece of anti-China "news" CBS, NBC and FOX news doles out to the American population.
We don't know many facts about this case. It would be useful if we could look into it further. The last jailed "cyber" dissident was from the Falun-Gang and advocated setting yourself on fire in Beijing. I'd say he deserved to be jailed.
And to say that people were "repressed" under Mao, implying that they hated their government, is simply wrong.
THERE ARE ELECTIONS in China. Have you read their consitutition? Their government organization? Lower bodies elect higher bodies and so on?
Things that DragonFlyBSD already has that FreeBSD-STABLE doesn't are, among others, application checkpointing, variant symlinks (not unlike Domain OS), Light-weight kernel threads, a more efficient slab-allocator, a multithreaded network stack, and the rcNG system."
Oh, boy! Let's look at 5.1-RELEASE's features: rcNG, KSE, Mandatory Access Control framework, better SMP, fast ATA drivers. I hate to say it, but, DragonFlyBSD is all most as silly as that xMach project.:-) It's about arrogance, not software.
Way to go People's Republic of China! Even after revisionism and "market socialism", this reaffirms China's commitment of distancing itself from finance capital. I believe that China's "market experiment" (market socialism, China is NOT a capitalist state entirely) is merely an efficient way to build up industry to a level where a planned economy would be more efficient. China's diverse population, the majority of whom are still peasants, makes a rigid planned economy hard to implement.
I got WOW! internet when I was in fifth grade. I was actually the one who requested it, previously I had been dialing into BBS and using ancient dial-in CompuServ from my dad's office. The internet didn't really "change" my life, I didn't become a bad kid nor was I raped or followed. It helped me access porno sites, but, I would have stolen porno magazines anyway, so I guess it saved me from going to juvie. It helped me learn how to have cybersex, but, I guess that's better than getting an STD at age 11.5.;) I was pretty much unrestricted on the net. Really, it's rather safe! You have more chance that, waiting under a building, that it will crumble on you than being abducted by the evil internet pedophile. But, most importantly, it helped me learn about programming, *NIX, dialectical materialism, all things which I cherish and continue to learn about. It also gives me free mp3s. WOW!!!! (While I download mp3s, sometimes, I really wish I was honest enough to go out and buy the damn CD. I think you should drill this into your children and besides, CD covers are worth the money in the first place.)
All of you jump to the same conclusion: "China is a hardline socialist totalitarian dictatorship and all of it's citizens must hate it there!" (1) we don't know anything about this 'cyber dissident', what sort of dissident was he? Was he funded by the CIA? If a 'dissident' is placed in a country to spread literature by a foreign nation it is a legitimate target for arrest. Any country would arrest such a person. The U.S. randomly arrested the Cuban Five and thousands of arabs basedo n loose connections. (2) China is half socialist (public ownership of production) and half a market economy. It's economy is not totalitarian in any sense. The Politburo is impereable. It seems to have set up some nice barriers around it's bureaucratic apparatus, but, there still exists democracy from the local up to the central committe level. (3) If you noticed, when thousands marched in Hong Kong, the Chinese government backed away from their new law, in the United States, when hundreds of thousands protest against a war, nothing happens.
This is absurd, relating Linux zealots to Terrorists. There is a large difference between the Terrorists of 9/11 and Linux zealots. Osama Bin Laden and his buddies exist from a material basis. They're actions reflect the universal hatred torward American imperialism both in an economic and political sense. Linux zealots neither hate American Imperialism nor have any tie to the economy.:-) The worst Linux zealots can do is scream and shout, there's no reason for them to take direct action.
To claim that all Zealots are Terrorists would presume that Neo-Conservative zealots for The New American Century like the esteemed President Bush and lackey Cheney are also terrorists.;)
I have to agree with most of the criticisms. I don't think there's any way you can fit another plot within the tight Evangelion storyline. I hope ADV doesn't add some bogus plot-like like "Asuka and Shinji re-create the world, but, then the angels come back! Mwa ha ha! Let us save the world again!"
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please stop the xenophobia. All countries are different. You know the US forced China to open up its markets right -- it had an embargo of basically all technology against it before Deng Xiaoping opened up the special zones.
This is the bottom line. This quota allows the Chinese government and national bourgeois to cut costs and this is always good. It fosters development rather than dependence.
Stop being so closed minded. Respect the people of China.
Is this all you geeks think about? "Oh, what distribution to Iraqis run?!" Why don't you think about something politically relevent?
But, you know, bourgeois governments are keen at wasting money.
Anyways. Now I'm becoming a cyber terrorist and am going to launch attacks on Israeli computers.
I will make a correction. I am now about to classify two types of hacker. hacker 1: Pasty-faced, straight-edge, unintelligent but has a high sense of self-importance. Believes "Freedom" is "Freedom from Copyrights." and has a limited view of the world. Green or left democrat. Sexually repressed, fat, usually wearing a t-shirt and shorts, even in repressively cold weather. hacker 2: Usually fat, button down shirt, right-winger. Loves the Free Market and has believes Ayn Rand's propaganda about the superiority of lassiez-faire capitalism. Also enjoys creating buffer overflows which form the base of their life's meaning. This type loves to chug beer, watch football, and pretend to do "manly" things, even when their appearance is revolting to most.
Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.
Thankfully the evil republic of Israel doesn't use FreeBSD.
I hope IPv6 is insecure so that some freedom loving hacker can break into Israeli computers and wreak havoc on that evil nation.
It's not the rampant christian symbolism which makes Evangelion attractive, in fact, it's only used to give Evangelion a "story." The real art of Evangelion is recognizing each character's traits and problems they face. Problems that when isolated are often found in the real world rather than the world of NERV and SEELE. The cinematography is excellent. Having taken a film class you can apply mise en scen to each frame within Evangelion and each character is placed in a certain way to emphasize the themes of alienation and hopelessness which span the series. Cartoons are not just for kids.
I think Israel should try Red Flag Linux. Perhaps the Red Flag of freedom would inspire them to stop terrorizing Palestineans.
You didn't have to take a pot shot at Neon Genesis Evangelion. I don't think you have the intellectual capacity to understand that anime.
I'm helping out with this GNU-alternative organization. http://www.newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=35255&cid =83495
KEEP FIGHTING.
I hope Israel spends all their money so they have less to kill Palestineans with. This is a War.
Hackers would get more money writing for SysAdmin.
In other news someone republished the Orange Book here
I don't think any fool would believe a statistic on the Chinese prison population written by an anti-communist Tibetan.
We don't know many facts about this case. It would be useful if we could look into it further. The last jailed "cyber" dissident was from the Falun-Gang and advocated setting yourself on fire in Beijing. I'd say he deserved to be jailed.
And to say that people were "repressed" under Mao, implying that they hated their government, is simply wrong.
THERE ARE ELECTIONS in China. Have you read their consitutition? Their government organization? Lower bodies elect higher bodies and so on?
Things that DragonFlyBSD already has that FreeBSD-STABLE doesn't are, among others, application checkpointing, variant symlinks (not unlike Domain OS), Light-weight kernel threads, a more efficient slab-allocator, a multithreaded network stack, and the rcNG system." Oh, boy! Let's look at 5.1-RELEASE's features: rcNG, KSE, Mandatory Access Control framework, better SMP, fast ATA drivers. I hate to say it, but, DragonFlyBSD is all most as silly as that xMach project. :-) It's about arrogance, not software.
Way to go People's Republic of China! Even after revisionism and "market socialism", this reaffirms China's commitment of distancing itself from finance capital. I believe that China's "market experiment" (market socialism, China is NOT a capitalist state entirely) is merely an efficient way to build up industry to a level where a planned economy would be more efficient. China's diverse population, the majority of whom are still peasants, makes a rigid planned economy hard to implement.
Onward to Victory.
I got WOW! internet when I was in fifth grade. I was actually the one who requested it, previously I had been dialing into BBS and using ancient dial-in CompuServ from my dad's office. The internet didn't really "change" my life, I didn't become a bad kid nor was I raped or followed. It helped me access porno sites, but, I would have stolen porno magazines anyway, so I guess it saved me from going to juvie. It helped me learn how to have cybersex, but, I guess that's better than getting an STD at age 11.5. ;) I was pretty much unrestricted on the net. Really, it's rather safe! You have more chance that, waiting under a building, that it will crumble on you than being abducted by the evil internet pedophile. But, most importantly, it helped me learn about programming, *NIX, dialectical materialism, all things which I cherish and continue to learn about. It also gives me free mp3s. WOW!!!! (While I download mp3s, sometimes, I really wish I was honest enough to go out and buy the damn CD. I think you should drill this into your children and besides, CD covers are worth the money in the first place.)
All of you jump to the same conclusion: "China is a hardline socialist totalitarian dictatorship and all of it's citizens must hate it there!" (1) we don't know anything about this 'cyber dissident', what sort of dissident was he? Was he funded by the CIA? If a 'dissident' is placed in a country to spread literature by a foreign nation it is a legitimate target for arrest. Any country would arrest such a person. The U.S. randomly arrested the Cuban Five and thousands of arabs basedo n loose connections. (2) China is half socialist (public ownership of production) and half a market economy. It's economy is not totalitarian in any sense. The Politburo is impereable. It seems to have set up some nice barriers around it's bureaucratic apparatus, but, there still exists democracy from the local up to the central committe level. (3) If you noticed, when thousands marched in Hong Kong, the Chinese government backed away from their new law, in the United States, when hundreds of thousands protest against a war, nothing happens.
This is absurd, relating Linux zealots to Terrorists. There is a large difference between the Terrorists of 9/11 and Linux zealots. Osama Bin Laden and his buddies exist from a material basis. They're actions reflect the universal hatred torward American imperialism both in an economic and political sense. Linux zealots neither hate American Imperialism nor have any tie to the economy. :-) The worst Linux zealots can do is scream and shout, there's no reason for them to take direct action.
To claim that all Zealots are Terrorists would presume that Neo-Conservative zealots for The New American Century like the esteemed President Bush and lackey Cheney are also terrorists. ;)
I have to agree with most of the criticisms. I don't think there's any way you can fit another plot within the tight Evangelion storyline. I hope ADV doesn't add some bogus plot-like like "Asuka and Shinji re-create the world, but, then the angels come back! Mwa ha ha! Let us save the world again!"